Interesting read over the past few pages.... I took a tour this afternoon as all the fun was going down. The IT people were probably at the ice cream social in the courtyard.

Regarding the smaller 1L class size.... yes, they are aiming for 300 next year. A section is being eliminated versus smaller section sizes. My tour guide said that the goal, besides the obvious ranking aim, is that the school has been hiring part-time professors to teach some classes and wants to eliminate some of the costs at the 1L level to hire permanent staff. Example given was that one of his professors cancelled on a weeks notice and the school had to find a replacement in five-six days.

Library: nice. Quiet room seemed a little oppressive.Opposite side of the building is going under renovation after the new courtroom is finished. Not sure what kind of noise will come from that.

ShiftyPig wrote:Regarding the smaller 1L class size.... yes, they are aiming for 300 next year. A section is being eliminated versus smaller section sizes. My tour guide said that the goal, besides the obvious ranking aim, is that the school has been hiring part-time professors to teach some classes and wants to eliminate some of the costs at the 1L level to hire permanent staff. Example given was that one of his professors cancelled on a weeks notice and the school had to find a replacement in five-six days.

ShiftyPig wrote:Regarding the smaller 1L class size.... yes, they are aiming for 300 next year. A section is being eliminated versus smaller section sizes. My tour guide said that the goal, besides the obvious ranking aim, is that the school has been hiring part-time professors to teach some classes and wants to eliminate some of the costs at the 1L level to hire permanent staff. Example given was that one of his professors cancelled on a weeks notice and the school had to find a replacement in five-six days.

Professor canceled? As in ... quit? Or just took like a vacay?

That was the professor who filed a discrimination suit.

Is that a recent suit? My tour guide was a 1L so it would have been this semester or last.

Edit: Yeah, could have been... the last time I saw a reference to that suit it was in conjunction with an early 2000 NYT article... actually I believe you posted the link.

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project40 wrote:think i might be the first wave of rejections to be honest haha

159/3.35 urm

Dude, like I said before, I don't see how you could possibly get rejected with your numbers and as a URM...Mine went to "decision pending" today as well... I'm pretty borderline so maybe a waitlist I'd guess

P.S. What's the consensus on "decision pending" on these boards? Do people get decisions sent with this status normally, or is it like a "hold" or defferal??

Someone from TLS told me that "decision pending" translates to "on hold." He/she was quoting one of the early Prospectus from UF, one that I didn't receive. I've been "decision pending" since late Jan.

lawseek wrote:Someone from TLS told me that "decision pending" translates to "on hold." He/she was quoting one of the early Prospectus from UF, one that I didn't receive. I've been "decision pending" since late Jan.

This is what I figured... basically, I think if you're borderline they don't want to reject you, but rather see how many people actually accept their offer with higher numbers and fill the remainder from there... just my guess

lawseek wrote:Someone from TLS told me that "decision pending" translates to "on hold." He/she was quoting one of the early Prospectus from UF, one that I didn't receive. I've been "decision pending" since late Jan.

This is what I figured... basically, I think if you're borderline they don't want to reject you, but rather see how many people actually accept their offer with higher numbers and fill the remainder from there... just my guess

lawseek wrote:Someone from TLS told me that "decision pending" translates to "on hold." He/she was quoting one of the early Prospectus from UF, one that I didn't receive. I've been "decision pending" since late Jan.

This is what I figured... basically, I think if you're borderline they don't want to reject you, but rather see how many people actually accept their offer with higher numbers and fill the remainder from there... just my guess

I concur.

I agree and add that I think there's a difference in "decision pending" depending on whether you're "under review" or "reviewed". I think once you're "reviewed" & " decision pending", it translates to a hold.

lawseek wrote:Someone from TLS told me that "decision pending" translates to "on hold." He/she was quoting one of the early Prospectus from UF, one that I didn't receive. I've been "decision pending" since late Jan.

This is what I figured... basically, I think if you're borderline they don't want to reject you, but rather see how many people actually accept their offer with higher numbers and fill the remainder from there... just my guess

I concur.

I agree and add that I think there's a difference in "decision pending" depending on whether you're "under review" or "reviewed". I think once you're "reviewed" & " decision pending", it translates to a hold.

Ahh, that makes sense... I went back and checked and I'm "Under review; decision pending".. I guess I confused myself again, no idea what to make of that.......

lawseek wrote:Someone from TLS told me that "decision pending" translates to "on hold." He/she was quoting one of the early Prospectus from UF, one that I didn't receive. I've been "decision pending" since late Jan.

This is what I figured... basically, I think if you're borderline they don't want to reject you, but rather see how many people actually accept their offer with higher numbers and fill the remainder from there... just my guess

HAve they sent out any "no's" yet? If they haven't,then the decision pending people,myself included,include waitlist AND all the "no's". I got excited because honestly I didn't even expect to make the waitlist (3.81/157)...but my hopes are shot if no one has been rejected yet.

savanna wrote:HAve they sent out any "no's" yet? If they haven't,then the decision pending people,myself included,include waitlist AND all the "no's". I got excited because honestly I didn't even expect to make the waitlist (3.81/157)...but my hopes are shot if no one has been rejected yet.

LSN doesnt show any waitlists/rejections and no one here has said they received any.

I think the consensus here is "reviewed, decision pending" is a waitlist/rejection/hold out til they see what the admitted class looks like.